# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/liz-murray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:21:39.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/liz-murray"
name: "Liz Murray"
slug: "liz-murray"
description: "Elizabeth Murray is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003). Murray's memoir Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, published in 2010 is a New York Times Bestseller."
tagline: "American psychologist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LizMurray01-crop.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1980-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.179496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "liz_murray"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/lizmurray_life/"
    handle:    "lizmurray_life"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "lizmurraybreakingnight"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1338085/"
    handle:    "nm1338085"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лиз Мъри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elizabeth Murray"
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    title: "Liz Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Murray"
    title: "Liz Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Murray_(psikologo)"
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    title: "Liz Murray"
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    title: "Էլիզաբեթ Մուրայ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump